MS200 One Handed follow on poll

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have cut one handed for 24 years, i could not tip reduce a tree without the use of a single, SINGLE handed saw!

 

Imagine a fine laced beech, tipping these out involves keeping your wieght down the thin branches and reaching for the furthest points, impossible any other non mewp way.

 

wheres the danger at full reach?

[Arbocop]

I have cut one handed for 24 years, i could not tip reduce a tree without the use of a single, SINGLE handed saw!

 

Imagine a fine laced beech, tipping these out involves keeping your wieght down the thin branches and reaching for the furthest points, impossible any other non mewp way.

 

wheres the danger at full reach?

 

Pole pruners/loppers?

 

our chaps do it oftern

[Steve Bullman]

Pole pruners/loppers?

 

our chaps do it oftern

 

very hard to get the proper angle cut 9 times out of 10 with loppers at reach

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Pole pruners/loppers?

 

our chaps do it oftern

 

what if the growth is too thick for them? or so thin that they move up and down as you try to pole saw them?

 

clean cuts, especialy on beech.

[combined tree services]

As far as i knew it was still acceptable to use a top handled saw with one hand where required - ie tip reducing where a secure work poition can not be accieved without using one hand to do so .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

out of 72 votes only 4 want single use banned, are they climbers?I suspect not

[Rastreefarian]

I think theres a time and a place for one handed use, when your at full reach/out of the kick-back zone, but good work positioning should eliminate much of the one-handed work thats done.

[sawmonkey]

my thoughts for what their worth-

 

firstly i want to say that yes i have (today inc) used a saw one handed, but cards on the table here now, how many times do we do it just because we cant be bothered to re adjust our postion (i'm guilty of this) or because we cant be bothered to use the silky.

 

yes there is a time and place for using 1 handed but personally i think we should all sit back and think a bit more about the number of times we do/ have done it when we didnt need to just because its a bit quicker or easier and you'll be suprised how many times we been "naughty" but have got away with it. its the same with a lot of other things we do, we keep doing it BECAUSE we've got away with it, but sooner or later someone gets caught doing it, and its normally their family who suffer.

 

dont want to rant and i hope this makes sense, i just dont want to hear of people geting hurt, leaving a mrs a kids behind just because they couldnt be bothered to re adjust their position

[bob]

why would you want to ban things that are not allowed in the first place:confused1:

[combined tree services]

As far as im aware no where is it stated that the use of a top handled saw one handed is banned , in fact i seem to remember reading that the only time that it should be considered is when a work position can not be achieved safely without the use of one hand